Harry Truman: “We are fighting for a simple aim--as important to us today as the goal…”

On the recordJuly 3, 1951

We are fighting for a simple aim--as important to us today as the goal of independence was in 1776.

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Democratic · Missouri

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Address at the Ceremonies Commemorating the 175th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

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Harry Truman: “We are fighting for a simple aim--as important to us today as the goal of independence was in 1776.”